To the editor: In August, the nation celebrates the 85th birthday of Social Security, an economic lifeline for millions of Americans. On Aug. 14, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law. The act established several benefit programs: unemployment ...

To the editor: Did you ever see someone rowing a guideboat and wish that could be you? Green Side of the Big Apple LLC is sponsoring a Guideboat Academy Aug. 24 and 25, Saturday and Sunday, from noon until 4 p.m. This unique and special academy will ensure another generation of rowers of ...

To the editor: I’m writing in regards to Karen Nelson’s letter regarding kinship caregivers (“On kinship caregivers,” Aug. 1). I first want to agree with her comment “that the government doesn’t assist with housing to accommodate the struggles of having to upsize your home.” I ...

To the editor: For years now immigration has been a major topic of discussion in our country and our community. The North Country of New York state is home to well over 150 miles of the U.S.-Canada border. Many politicians and talking heads in the media focus on the crisis at the southern ...

To the editor: For the past 20 years China’s thriving, billion-dollar forced organ harvesting industry has been operating under the auspices of the state and constitutes one of the greatest violations of human rights and medical ethics of this century, having been categorized as a crime ...

To the editor: After reading his recent guest commentary (“Recent storms require a rethinking of New York state’s green agenda, Aug. 2), I’m left wondering if Senator Stec knows why the North Country has been suffering from sweltering summers and increasingly severe thunderstorms these ...